Stephanie Mehta is the CEO & Chief Content Officer of Mansueto Ventures, parent of Inc. and Fast Company. Most recently, she served as editor-in-chief of Fast Company, overseeing its print, digital, and live journalism. Previously, Mehta served as a deputy editor at Vanity Fair, editing feature stories and coediting the annual New Establishment ranking. She also curated the invitation-only New Establishment Summit and Founders Fair conference for women entrepreneurs, which she launched in 2017. In addition, she has worked as a writer and editor at Bloomberg Media, Fortune, and The Wall Street Journal. Mehta began her career as a business reporter at The Virginian-Pilot in Norfolk, Virginia. She received a B.A. in English and an M.S. in journalism from Northwestern University. A Chicago-area native, she now lives with her husband and two daughters in Scarsdale, New York.
Mark Rosenberg is the Chief Financial Officer at Mansueto Ventures, overseeing the organization’s financial operations. Rosenberg joined the company at its inception in 2005. Prior to joining Mansueto Ventures, Mark held various corporate development and marketing roles for publishers, including Gruner + Jahr USA, News Corporation, and Delaware Today. He is a graduate of the University of Michigan.
Anne Marie O’Keefe currently serves as the Chief Operating Officer of Mansueto Ventures. Previously, O’Keefe was V.P., Consumer Marketing at Mansueto Ventures, where she was responsible for driving growth across Inc. and Fast Company‘s subscription, recognition, and event products portfolio. Before Mansueto Ventures, O’Keefe held various positions in consumer marketing at Scientific American, Radar Magazine, InterMedia Outdoors, and more. She has a Bachelor of Arts degree in Communications from Marist College.
Joe Johnson is the Chief People and Culture Officer of Mansueto Ventures, where he is responsible for leading the company’s overall people and culture strategy. At the publishing company dedicated to serving the business leaders shaping the future of today’s economy, Joe focuses on talent acquisition, leadership development, diversity and inclusion, cultural development, employee education and development, compensation and benefits, and more. Johnson began his career at Mansueto in 2020 as a Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Senior Consultant, assisting in developing Mansueto’s DE&I programs and initiatives. Prior to Mansueto Ventures, Johnson held various executive-level positions in Human Resources and Sales Management in financial services with Bank of America, SunTrust Bank, and Wachovia Bank. He has a B.S. degree in Sociology with a minor in business from the University of Notre Dame.
Brendan Vaughan is the Editor in Chief of Fast Company, overseeing the brand’s recognition programs, events, and content. Vaughan most recently served as Deputy Editor at Insider, Inc., where he helped launch and run a new desk dedicated to long-form journalism and news analysis about business, tech, the workplace, and the economy. An industry veteran with nearly 30 years of experience in magazine journalism, publishing, and digital media, Vaughan has held senior positions at leading editorial brands, including Insider, Medium, Random House Publishing Group, The Atlantic, Esquire, GQ, and Condé Nast Portfolio. During Vaughan’s tenure as executive editor at GQ, the magazine was a finalist for the National Magazine Award for general excellence a half-dozen times, winning once. In addition, his individual stories have been recognized many times by the National Magazine Awards, the James Beard Awards, the Best American Writing anthology series, and other awards programs.
Mike Hofman is the Editor in Chief of Inc. His vision for Inc.—where he was an editor and writer for 15 years earlier in his career—is to convene critical conversations about economic opportunity and fairness, the future of work, innovation and superior execution as drivers of business growth, and the way new technologies like AI will shape the world for decades to come. Hofman most recently served as Executive Editor at Fast Company, where he assigned award-winning journalism, helped to launch the brand’s premium subscription product, and founded the company’s employee-resource group program. A veteran digital leader, Hofman has held senior positions at GQ and at Glamour, where he was part of the leadership team that was honored with the National Magazine Award for general excellence (service & lifestyle) in 2015 and for Best Video Series in 2014. He is a graduate of Boston College.
Jennifer Henkus currently serves as Senior Vice President, Sales of Inc., leading all global sales efforts, initiatives, and brand partnerships. Henkus first joined the organization in 2006 on the marketing team. With a keen understanding of both client and audience needs, Henkus expanded her role to develop multi-media brand platforms that drive new and recurring revenues. Prior to joining Inc., Henkus held strategic marketing positions at Harvard Business Review and Wired. Henkus has a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree in Advertising Design from Syracuse University.
Heather Keets Wright is the Senior Vice President, Video and Audio. Keets Wright is a creative thought leader in the agency and branded content space, having led creative agency work for organizations such as Walmart, Wells Fargo and USAA. As an entrepreneur, she co-founded Wright Creative Agency in 2015, served as Supervising Producer for Milestone Generations, an HBO Max documentary, and was a winner of the Women in Content Marketing Award. Keets Wright, a journalist by training, graduated from Syracuse University’s Newhouse School of Public Communications.
Kristin Mooney is Senior Vice President, MV Live, where she leads the company’s events strategy across virtual and in-person events, including flagship events such as the Fast Company Innovation Festival and the Inc. 5000 Conference and Gala. Mooney joined Mansueto from Insider Inc., where she served as Executive Director of Events and was the primary architect of Business Insider’s successful virtual conference strategy. Mooney previously served as Head of Strategic Events at the New York Stock Exchange, and earlier in her career was an Event Manager at Bloomberg and Conde Nast. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Interpersonal Communications from The Ohio State University.
As SVP of Marketing for Inc. and Fast Company, Damian Slattery leads the talented teams responsible for building best-in-class client solutions for the advertising partners of both brands. Working across the robust portfolios of these two dynamic business media titles, Slattery and his integrated marketing colleagues craft creative, customized programs that leverage all platforms—print, digital, video, social, custom content, experiential, and more—to unlock the power of the Inc. and Fast Company audiences for global and domestic marketers. Over the past four years, he was dedicated to the Fast Company brand, and before that, he spent years leading marketing teams for iconic titles like TIME, Sports Illustrated, and Fortune. Earlier, he was a longtime reporter for SI as well as a screenwriter and documentary writer.